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  2. Annie Londonderry - Wikipedia

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    Annie Cohen Kopchovsky (1870 – 11 November 1947), [1] known as Annie Londonderry, was a Jewish Latvian immigrant to the United States who in 1894–95 became the first woman to bicycle around the world. After having completed her travel, albeit mostly by ship, she built a media career around engagement with popular conception of what it was ...

  3. Leah Goldstein - Wikipedia

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    Leah Goldstein. Leah Goldstein (born February 4, 1969, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a professional Canadian- Israeli road racing cyclist, former 1989 World Bantamweight Kickboxing Champion, and Israel's 1998 Duathlon champion. [1][2] In 2021, she became the first woman to win the overall solo division of the Race Across America ...

  4. Mari Holden - Wikipedia

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    Mari Holden. Mari Kim Holden (born March 30, 1971) is an American Olympic medalist and World Champion in the sport of cycling. She won a silver medal in the 2000 Olympic Games time trial in Sydney, Australia and the world time trial championship later that year. She also won six U.S. championships, becoming the first American woman to win three ...

  5. Bicycling and feminism - Wikipedia

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    Feminism portal. v. t. e. The bicycle had a significant impact on the lives of women in a variety of areas. [1][2][3] The greatest impact the bicycle had on the societal role of women occurred in the 1890s during the bicycle craze that swept American and European society. [4] During this time, the primary achievement the bicycle gained for the ...

  6. Maria Parker - Wikipedia

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    Maria Parker (born February 7, 1963) is an American long-distance cyclist and the holder of multiple cycling records. [1] [2] She is also the founder of 3000 Miles to a Cure, an organization to raise money for Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure.

  7. Women's sports - Wikipedia

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    First, the women's ball was smaller and lighter. Second, the women played with smaller teams and on a smaller field. Third, the women were not allowed to use their hands or feet to touch the ball. Instead, they used their heads and chests to control the ball. Women's Cuju was a popular sport for centuries in China.

  8. Kristen Faulkner - Wikipedia

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    Kristen Faulkner (born December 18, 1992) [ 1 ] is an American racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's Continental Team EF–Oatly–Cannondale. [ 4 ][ 5 ] She is the reigning USA National Road Race Champion [ 6 ] and won two gold medals in the women's individual road race and women's track cycling team pursuit at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

  9. Rebecca Twigg - Wikipedia

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    She won the first three editions of the Women's Challenge on the road. Twigg was a three-time Olympian (1984, 1992, and 1996). However, her final Olympic appearance, in Atlanta in 1996, ended in controversy when she quit the team in a disagreement with the coach Chris Carmichael and the U.S. Cycling Federation .